2007-02-04 07:45:59 · 27 answers · asked by ohwiseone 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Really? How are they planning on reinforcing this?
2007-02-04 07:48:36 · answer #1 · answered by Funky Little Spacegirl 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is a tricky one. On the one hand this is your home, this your space (including the air in side it) and you bought or are paying for it - therefore you should be able to do what you want in it. However, if the governent is making smoking as bad a crime as assult etc then you can't do it. Its your choice to smoke but others who enter your home do not have a choice but to inhale your smoke. If you can't smoke at home - where can you smoke? Will the governments next step be to charge you for medical costs if you continue to smoke?
2007-02-04 16:01:17 · answer #2 · answered by JJ88 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If smoking grass can be illegal, so can smoking cigarrettes. However, short of saying they are controlled substances, the only justification I can see is if you live in a multifamily home without a separate venting system. Second hand smoke does make people sick, and I can see where there would be a protectable right against getting poisoned in one's own home, too.
The solution to that is a separate venting system, though.
2007-02-04 16:30:39 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think that its everyones personal choice to smoke or not to......personally i wouldnt' but then again legally im too young (u.s). But i think there should be some consideration for non-smokers being exposed to second hand smoke. I think if you're by yourself or around only people that smoke it shouldn't be a problem. I had no idea they were thinking about baning it in Ireland I didn't know they could.
either way good luck and i hope things work out for you! (not that this matters but i'm of all irish heritage) luck of the irish haha :)
2007-02-04 15:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are; a similar problem is that some states here in America have laws about what kind of sex a person may have; in some states, sodomy(anal sex) is illegal, there are other specific examples I can't think of right now. Sex isn't smoking, I admit, but it is an example of the government invading people's homes with their laws. Since the advent of the smokeless ashtray, they don't have the excuse of secondhand smoke, either.
2007-02-04 15:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my view cigarettes would have to be banned completely for such a law to have any effect or to be enforceable. Of course, as others have said, governments spend most of their time trying to control individuals. Somebody votes in these maniacs so check them out at the next election. The people do have power, it's just that they don't use it.
2007-02-08 06:45:37 · answer #6 · answered by michael w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All over the world
Smoking laws are being used as the "test case" for just how far people will allow governments to go in the unending search for that magic combination that allows them to take absolute control of everything that we do !!!!
Most people do not realize that once a government has a PRECIDENT set in place on ANY ISSUE that is considered established law---these items become the foundation for a score of OTHER measures--- and there are a lot of other measures that YOUR government and OURS would truly LOVE to have in their never ending quest to take full and absolute control over the smallest of details of our lives !!! They ACTUALLY SEE THEMSELVES AS BEING FAR MORE CAPABLE OF RUNNING OUR LIVES THAN WE ARE !!! And, any one that doesn't see that isn't looking !!!
2007-02-04 16:04:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child all the adults in my family smoked.
I can remember being in the room with them and there would be 6 or 7 smokers all in a closed room with us kids.
The smoke clouds would rise and my lungs would begin to hurt.
Today I have emphesema which is not fun.
What a shame that people don't have enough sense not to spread their second hand smoke to the ones they love.
If people would use common sense then laws wouldn't have to be passed.
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2007-02-04 15:56:20 · answer #8 · answered by Brotherhood 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting, I doubt it would be enforcable or follow peoples home rights. If only the kids wouldn't keep thinking smoking made them attractive, people wouldn't get hooked at a young age.
2007-02-04 15:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Might be two or three steps too far...and I say that as a non-smoker.
How long will governments of the world treat everyone like children and try to parent every aspect of their lives?
2007-02-04 15:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by SpisterMooner 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's one step too far! How are they going to enforce it? Station a cop in every home? Then again, if you can't smoke in public, or at home, why allow tobacco to be sold at all? That's where it's going, you just wait and see.
2007-02-04 15:53:28 · answer #11 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋